Dark Femmes #26

Phyllis Brunner - Blackout (1954)

Lilly Dillon - The Grifters

Linda - Wages of Fear

Bridget Gregory - Last Seduction

Violeta - Victims of Sin

Debby Marsh - Big Heat

Fay - After Dark My Sweet

Krystyna - Ashes and Diamonds

Dedee - Dedee D'Anvers

Mae Doyle - Clash By Night

Renata Crest - Ice Harvest

Myung Sook - The Housemaid (1960)

Nina Jameson - Man Trap

Dolly Harshaw - Hot Spot

The Girl - The Thief (1952)

Mrs Danvers - Rebecca (1940)

Lona McLane - Pushover

Julie - Dirty Hands

Myra Hudson - Sudden Fear

Norma Desmond - Sunset Boulevard

Risks He Took

            A pool hustler had to do what he claimed to be able to do. The risks he took were not underwritten. His skill on the arena of green cloth - cloth that itself was the color of money - could never be only pretense.

Walter Tevis
Color of Money
1984

Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels -
Dead End for Delia
1993

Scott Laumann

        raymond chandler

             bill evans

    james sallis

   marlon brando

   ernest hemingway

        art blakey

    billie holiday

Poolroom Shadows #3

Mean Streets

Game of Pool - Twilight Zone

American Friend

The Hustler

The Driver

House of Games

On the Waterfront

Hard Times

Color of Money

Rumblefish

Tied (2013)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

Turn the River

My Memories

I can't ..... rely on ..... my memories.

Rachael
Blade Runner
1982

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James Martin

More We Fear

The more bare a life the more we fear change.

A Burnt Out Case
Graham Greene
1960

Every Side Against the Middle

        Politeness and bonhomie are strictly provisional and everybody knows it,which is what gives this film it's terrible sadness. In the miserable economy of power in Boston's rumpled grey underworld, Eddie and his 'friends' are all expendable, and the ones left standing play every side against the middle, their white-knuckle terror carefully concealed under several layers of nonchalance and resignation.

Kent Jones
on Friends of Eddie Coyle - 1973
Criterion 

Never Quite Defeated

       Marlowe's type shouldn't get married. Because he is a lonely man, a poor man, a dangerous man and yet a sympathetic man, and somehow none of this goes with marriage. I think he will always have a fairly shabby office, a lonely house, a number of affairs, but no permanent connection ......... I see him always in a lonely street, in lonely rooms, puzzled but never quite defeated.

Raymond Chandler
Letter to a friend - 21st Feb 1959
(Chandler Died 26th March 1959)

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James Dietz

Coming Off Shift #10

Detour

Duel

Ashes and Diamonds

The Onion Field

The Hustler

Kalifornia

Last Picture Show

Last Stop in Yuma County

Shack Out on 101

Terminal

Double Indemnity

U Turn

Fallen Angel

The Vanishing (1993)

Body Heat